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s00pcan··on [dead]
It's not.
s00pcan··on Stolen Camera Finder
They do. My Canon PowerShot G3 did this and I've had that since 2004. The way it works is this: the camera takes two photos of equal shutter speed length, except the second is done with the aperture completely closed. This gives you a noise profile on what should be a completely black screen equal to the noise generated during the real photo. The camera then automatically removes the noise from the first photo using the second. Of course, this means you have to wait for the camera to take and process the second shot, which could be up to several seconds long. This is naturally only done on low-light shots though, meaning things like dead pixels are still present on most photos.
s00pcan··on A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People
No one has mentioned this book yet? It's what I expected this article to be like.

Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PUHbK9h-44

s00pcan··on Microsoft Support: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
I'm playing Portal 2 right now and just heard the line "Oh no. He's playing classical music." Fur Elise is playing. And it means exactly this! I would have never got the joke otherwise. But I suspect that was the reason this was posted.
s00pcan··on A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People
I watched a video of him picking something from his foot and eating it (during a question and answer setting full of people and, obviously cameras). But really, what does it matter if he doesn't mind?
s00pcan··on Joel Spolsky: Lunch
Video about snacks/dinner at Valve: http://www.dump.com/2011/04/24/valve-behind-the-scenes-the-s...
s00pcan··on I Hope You Don’t Have a Borders Rewards Card
I used to use /admin2/ I don't think anyone ever found out, but the website was a hideous mess of a first attempt at using PHP/MySQL.
s00pcan··on (Android) Developer Income Report #9
Lots of negative reviews on your apps on the android store, (which is to be expected for "just for fun" apps) but that's pretty much irrelevant so long as you're making money and getting experience. I wish I could say I was doing either.
s00pcan··on Before I Die...
This is the least scary way you could write "Die" on a wall 81 times.
s00pcan··on Appcelerator Titanium: From a developer's perspective
"It’s only syntax/static checking is done via JSLint with a pretty arcane set of rules. Want to write one line if statements? That’s a warning. A for loop without checking for property existence? That’s a warning."

Someone hasn't read Javascript: The Good Parts.

s00pcan··on Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive
Being that dropbox uses amazon S3, I can't say I would expect them to be surprised at this.
s00pcan··on How Carrots Became the new Junk Food
I can't remember the last time Maddox was relevant.
s00pcan··on HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap"
"We can find source code for such things on the net to help us write it. It's just a few lines of code."
s00pcan··on A tale of two programmers
Is there a reason every recent post on this guy's blog has been posted on HN?
s00pcan··on Everybody is spamming everybody else on Mechanical Turk
This is still being used? I remember how easily scammed it was when this first came out. You'd think that massive failure would have meant something to them.
s00pcan··on Gain control of a Linux System via an USB-Device due to strcpy
Well so far there have only been two systems that made any effort to keep them separate, so that is true. But it's still the same base exploit.
s00pcan··on Gain control of a Linux System via an USB-Device due to strcpy
Well isn't a buffer overflow used to hack EVERY video game system?
s00pcan··on No-SQL injection in Mongo PHP
I might be missing something here, having never used MongoDB, but what does this have to do with it? How else can this attack vector be used?
s00pcan··on Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
So you created something to annoy users. How is this good?
s00pcan··on 70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable
I really doubt that software piracy would be illegal if put to a public vote.
s00pcan··on IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.
How is it relevant in any way that this was filmed with an iPhone?
s00pcan··on Thunderbolt
Has anyone considered using an external video card with this? That would be a great use with desktop replacement laptops since it would actually be upgradeable.
s00pcan··on Thunderbolt
With vertical plugs I always just plug it in whichever way I'm holding the plug first, then flip it as necessary. It's not like there's any standardization between motherboard manufacturers on this, so why bother trying to remember which way it goes?
s00pcan··on Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
I tried checking the source but it made me fail. So I picked up my ps3 controller and started playing an emulator.
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